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Yi Yi Wu heads up Minter Ellison’s Shanghai office. With more than two decades in practice, she is an accomplished corporate lawyer with rich international, Australian and China experience. Yi Yi specialises in corporate and commercial law including mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, corporate finance, employment and real estate. As a former Intercontinental Hotel Group in-house counsel, Yi Yi has particular strength in the hotel management and franchise sectors. She is a PRC and Australian qualified lawyer with significant on the ground experience in Asia having practised in both China and Australia for a number of years. Yi Yi has acted for multinational corporations in China, Australia and other countries as well as Chinese state-owned and private companies on their overseas investment projects. These projects span automobile, chemical, mining and resources, ports, education, express services, gas station, hotel management and development, banking, residential and property, and wool processing. Yi Yi is fluent in English, Mandarin and the Shanghai dialect and is an Australian accredited professional English/Chinese translator. She is a published author on legal issues in China and Australia and frequent speaker on Chinese law and business practice.
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Yi Yi has extensive expertise in corporate having acted for numerous companies on establishment of presence in China, major projects, WFOE set up, joint ventures, global restructuring. This includes advising on relevant legal issues, drafting, reviewing, negotiating and amending legal documents in both English and Chinese.
Yi Yi has advised on capital raising, loan facilities, debt issue and IPO, including advising on financial facility documents and shareholders agreement, managing investment scheme, the prospectus of Funds, acting as a secretary of the due diligence committee for the IPO, and drafting various legal documents.
Yi Yi’s broad cross-border expertise has seen her assist numerous Chinese and Australian companies in inbound and outbound mergers and acquisitions across a wide range of industries. Most notably she acted for Chinese coal mining company Yankuang Group on its strategic investment in Australia, and China Nonferrous Metals Company on its proposed acquisition of a listed Australian mining company. She also represented many Australian companies in investment in China including joint ventures and acquisition of Chinese counterparts.